Migrations -

Charlotte McConaghy

Flatiron Books

2020

272 páginas

9h 4m

ISBN-13: 9781250204028

For readers of Station Eleven and Flight Behavior, a debut novel set on the brink of catastrophe, as a young woman chases the world’s last birds - and her own final chance for redemption.

A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive.

Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean’s tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world’s last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani, to take her onboard, winning over his salty, eccentric crew with promises that the birds she is tracking will lead them to fish.

As the Saghani fights its way south, Franny’s new shipmates begin to realize that the beguiling scientist in their midst is not who she seems. Battered by night terrors, accumulating a pile of letters to her husband, and dead set on following the terns at any cost, Franny is full of dark secrets. When the story of her past begins to unspool, Ennis and his crew must ask themselves what Franny is really running toward—and running from.

Propelled by a narrator as fierce and fragile as the terns she is following, Migrations is a shatteringly beautiful ode to the wild places and creatures now threatened. But at its heart, it is about the lengths we will go, to the very edges of the world, for the people we love.

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1 (Ruim)

Tentou voar, mas só se estabacou no chão

Isso que é ruim de ir ler um livro cheio de expectativas, mega recomendado por uma influencer que eu AMO, mas pra mim não vingou.
A premissa é incrível, um futuro não tão distante onde os animais estão sendo extintos, essa ornitóloga precisa de uma carona marítima para acompanhar o último vôo da andorinha do ártico. Nisso vai mesclando com seu passado, eis aí que degringolou de vez. Cheio de clichês cafonérrimos que vão contaminando sua história presente até chegar num ponto que os motivos e motivações dela e dos personagens que a cercam são mais fracos do que as habilidades dela como maruja. Diálogos paupérrimos, acontecimentos absurdamente descabidos, a protagonista Franny saiu simplesmente insuportável e rasa, a escritora forçou na dor mas não implementou uma base que suportasse suas contradições. Nada salva até a última linha, quem dera a extinção tivesse sido a da minha vontade de começar esse livro rs